In the autum 2014 issue of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies Heather Schell asked a question I think I can answer:
IASPR and JPRS, organizations whose value more than compensates for their horrible acronyms (sorry, but it’s true. Jeepers, what were you people thinking?)
It was a long time ago and I can't find the emails to check, but as far as I can remember, Eric (Selinger) and Sarah (Frantz) had come up with various possibilities and I either said I preferred these ones, or jiggled around the letters they'd already come up with so that they ended up this way. My reasoning was that they'd be easy to remember and pronounce. IASPR sounds like Jasper, a name I'll always associate with the song which goes like this:
Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch me,
Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch me,
Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch me,
As she lay between the lilly-white sheets with nothing on.
[Repeat the verse, each time missing out one more word from the end of the first three lines e.g. the next verse would be]
Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch,
Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch,
Oh, Sir Jasper do not touch,
As she lay between the lilly-white sheets with nothing on.
The last verse, of course, is therefore just "Oh, oh, oh, As she lay between the lilly-white sheets with nothing on." It seemed not entirely inappropriate to allude to Sir Jasper and this "forced seduction" in the title of an organisation dedicated to the study of popular romance. As for JPRS, well